Details
Title [Collecting cards depicting Centennial Exhibition buildings] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Date [1876]
Physical Description 8 prints: lithograph; 10 x 13 cm. (3.75 x 5 in.)
Description Series of cards depicting Centennial Exhibition buildings. Includes U.S Government Building, Machinery Hall, Ladies Pavilion, Centennial Art Gallery, Agricultural Hall, and Main Exhibition Building. Also contains views of "Original Independence Hall, 1776" and "New Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, 1876." Images of exhibition buildings include length and width measurements. Majority of the buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Michael Zinman.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Masonic buildings.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Genre Collecting cards -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Pettit, Henry, 1842-1921, architect.
Associated name Schwarzmann, Hermann J., 1846-1891, architect.
Associated name Wilson, Joseph M. (Joseph Miller), 1838-1902, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.90-97]
Accession number P.2008.36.90
P.2008.36.91
P.2008.36.92
P.2008.36.93
P.2008.36.94
P.2008.36.95
P.2008.36.96
P.2008.36.97